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| | Summit gets something done 265
Contrary to most accounts, last week's summit meeting in London was not a waste of time, but an occasion when several national leaders made promises they can now be asked to keep.
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| | Milk and coffee 266
The British Anglican plan to boycott Nestlé coffee leaves much logic by the wayside.
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| | German research budget robs west to pay east 267
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/352267a0
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| | Mayo new head at Bell Labs 268
Robert Pool
doi:10.1038/352268a0
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| | Hadley quits two OSI investigations 268
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/352268b0
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| | NIH quick off the mark 268
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/352268c0
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| | Zagury report censures NIH 269
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/352269a0
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| | Superconducting motor 269
Robert Pool
doi:10.1038/352269b0
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| | DDI nears approval 269
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/352269c0
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| | Teething troubles for UK technology labs 270
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/352270a0
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| | The perils of industrial participation 270
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/352270b0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | Ozone hits new low 271
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/352271a0
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| | ERS-1 off at last 271
Christopher Anderson
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| | Waves rediscovered 271
Christopher Anderson
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| | In-depth probe 271
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/352271d0
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| | Limits to Endurance 271
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/352271e0
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| | Parallel boost 271
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/352271f0
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| | At odds over big science 272
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/352272a0
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| | Microgravity on tap 272
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/352272b0
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| | AIDS in Yanomami? 272
Ricardo Bonalume
doi:10.1038/352272c0
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| | Atomic lab flooded 272
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/352272d0
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| | Biotech grows in Hong Kong 273
Peter Gwynne
doi:10.1038/352273a0
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| | Science park in Macao 273
Peter Gwynne
doi:10.1038/352273b0
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Peter Gwynne
doi:10.1038/352273c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Asian elephant threatened 274
SHANTHINI DAWSON & TIM M. BLACKBURN
doi:10.1038/352274a0
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| | Origin of bacterial adaptation 274
SIMON BAUMBERG
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| | Grant to HUGO 274
WALTER BOOMER
doi:10.1038/352274c0
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| | Shake-up for earthquake prediction 275
Japan's ambitious earthquake prediction programme has no hope of success, unless fundamental research is emphasized and data are shared.
Robert J. Geller
doi:10.1038/352275a0
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| | Non-locality bursts into life 277
The past few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics, not least because there has been a succession of generations.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/352277a0
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| | It's all in the timing 278
David Black
doi:10.1038/352278a0
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| | The defect in Marfan syndrome 279
Victor A. McKusick
doi:10.1038/352279a0
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| | Abraham Lincoln and Marfan syndrome 280
V. McK.
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| | Grand openings for cloverite 281
Mark E. Davis
doi:10.1038/352281a0
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| | New ozone hole phenomenon 282
Anne M. Thompson
doi:10.1038/352282a0
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| | Splicing: the new edition 283
Brenda L Bass
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| | Biomechanics goes quantum 284
Malcolm Irving
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| | Tunnelling in 285
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| | Do it yourself 285
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| | Cancer confirmation 285
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James M. Nemec
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| | Eyes right! 287
DAVID JONES
doi:10.1038/352287a0
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| | Leukaemia risks and radon 288
SIMON P. WOLFF
doi:10.1038/352288a0
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| | Do bacteria have sex? 288
JOSE L. MARTINEZ
doi:10.1038/352288b0
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| | What's the score? 288
FRANCES M. BRODSKY
doi:10.1038/352288c0
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| | Too exposed? 289
CECIL REDD & MICHAEL ZOLENSKY
doi:10.1038/352289a0
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| | Too exposed? 289
DAVID K. FELBECK
doi:10.1038/352289b0
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| | Ball lightning 290
ERIK A. WITALIS
doi:10.1038/352290a0
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| | Plastid origins 290
SUSAN E. DOUGLAS & MICHAEL W. GRAY
doi:10.1038/352290b0
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| | Similarities in RNA helicases 290
EUGENE V. KOONIN
doi:10.1038/352290c0
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| | Anti-prions and other agents 291
J. MANSON & J. HOPE
doi:10.1038/352291a0
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R. G. HEWINSON , J. P. LOWINGS , M. D. DAWSON & M. J. WOODWARD
doi:10.1038/352291b0
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PAUL E. BENDHEIM & DAVID C. BOLTON
doi:10.1038/352291c0
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| | Diet and IQ 292
STEPHEN SCHOENTHALER
doi:10.1038/352292a0
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| | Still poles apart 293
Derek Fordham reviews Hero In Disgrace: The True Discoverer of the North Pole, Frederick A. Cook
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Howard S. Abramson
doi:10.1038/352293a0
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| | Distant goal 294
Philip Davenport reviews Fusion: The Search for Endless Energy.
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Robin Herman
doi:10.1038/352294a0
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| | Plumbing the depths 294
A. J. Southward reviews Deep-Sea Biology: A Natural History of Organisms at the Deep-Sea Floor
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J. D. P. A. GageTyler.
doi:10.1038/352294b0
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| | On best behaviour 296
Mark Ridley reviews Man and Beast Revisited.
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doi:10.1038/352296a0
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| | Wooden waterwheels 296
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| | Blue stragglers in the core of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae 297
F. Paresce, M. Shara, G. Meylan, D. Baxter, P. Greenfield, R. Jedrzejewski, A. Nota, W. B. Sparks, R. Albrecht, C. Barbieri, J. C. Blades, A. Boksenberg, P. Crane, J. M. Deharveng, M. J. Disney, P. Jakobsen, T. M. Kamperman, I. R. King, F. Macchetto, C. D. Mackay & G. Weigelt
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| | Sub-piconewton force fluctuations of actomyosin in vitro
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Akihiko Ishijima, Takashi Doi, Katsuhiko Sakurada & Toshio Yanagida
doi:10.1038/352301a0
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| | Quantized velocities at low myosin densities in an in vitro motility 307
Taro Q. P. Uyeda, Hans M. Warrick, Stephen J Kron & James A Spudich
doi:10.1038/352307a0
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| | A planet orbiting the neutron star PSR1829−10 311
M. Bailes, A. G. Lyne & S. L. Shemar
doi:10.1038/352311a0
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| | A disrupted radio jet inside the host galaxy of the quasar 3C48 313
P. N. Wilkinson, A. K. Tzioumis, J. M. Benson, R. C. Walker, R. S. Simon & F. D. Kahn
doi:10.1038/352313a0
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| | Carbon suboxide in comet Halley? 316
WesleyT. Huntress Jr, Mark Alien & Mona Delrtsky
doi:10.1038/352316a0
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| | Observation of synchronous picosecond sonoluminescence 318
Bradley P. Barber & Seth J. Putterman
doi:10.1038/352318a0
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| | A synthetic gallophosphate molecular sieve with a 20-tetrahedral-atom pore opening 320
M. Estermann, L. B. McCusker, C. Baerlocher, A. Merrouche & H. Kessler
doi:10.1038/352320a0
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| | Distribution of dissolved iron in sediment pore waters at submillimetre resolution 323
W. Davison, G. W. Grime, J. A. W. Morgan & K. Clarke
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In situ chemical mapping of dissolved iron and manganese in
hydrothermal plumes 325
Kenneth H. Coale, Carol S. Chin, Gary
J. Massoth, Kenneth S. Johnson & Edward T. Baker
doi:10.1038/352325a0
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| | Signalling of need by offspring to their parents 328
H. C. J. Godfray
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| | Linkage of Marfan syndrome and a phenotypically related disorder to two
different fibrillin genes 330
Brendan Lee, Maurice Godfrey, Emilia Vitale, Hisae Hori, Marie-Geneviéve Mattei, Mansoor Sarfarazi, Petros Tsipouras, Francesco Ramirez & David W. Hollister
doi:10.1038/352330a0
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| | Partial sequence of a candidate gene for the Marfan syndrome 334
Cheryl L. Maslen, Glen M. Corson, B. Kerry Maddox, Robert W. Glanville & Lynn Y. Sakai
doi:10.1038/352334a0
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| | Marfan syndrome caused by a recurrent de novo missense mutation
in the fibrillin gene 337
Harry C. Dietz, Carry R. Cutting, Reed E. Pyeritz, Cheryl L. Maslen, Lynn Y Sakai, Glen M Corson, Erik
G. Puffenberger, Ada Hamosh, Elizabeth J. Nanthakumar, Sheila M. Curristin, Gail Stetten, Deborah A. Meyers & Clair A. Francomano
doi:10.1038/352337a0
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Creutzfeldt−Jakob disease 340
Mark S. Palmer, Aidan J. Dryden, J. Trevor Hughes & John Collinge
doi:10.1038/352340a0
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| | Recognition and plasma clearance of endotoxin by scavenger receptors 342
Randolph Y. Hampton, Douglas T. Golenbock, Marsha Penman, Monty Krieger & Christian R. H. Raetz
doi:10.1038/352342a0
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| | Wild-type p53 induces apoptosis of myeloid leukaemic cells that is inhibited by interleukin-6 345
Elisheva Yonish-Rouach, Dalia Resnftzky, Joseph Lotem, Leo Sachs, Adi Kimchi & Moshe Oren
doi:10.1038/352345a0
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| | Bovine papillomavirus E5 oncoprotein binds to the 16K component of vacuolar H+-ATPases 347
David J. Goldstein, Malcolm E. Fmbow , Thorkell Andresson, Pauline McLean, Ken Smith, Vivien Bubb & Richard Schlegel
doi:10.1038/352347a0
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| | Was the loss of the D helix in  globin a functionally neutral mutation? 349
Noboru H. Komiyama, Daniel T.-B. Shih, Doug Looker, Jeremy Tame & Kiyoshi Nagai
doi:10.1038/352349a0
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| | Sliding distance between actin and myosin filaments per ATP molecule hydrolysed in skinned muscle fibres 352
Hideo Higuchi & Yale E. Goldman
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Assorted products featured this week include a chemist's calculator, a brain infusion kit, an all-in-one stirrer and balance, and gel chambers with built-in buffer recirculation.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/352355a0
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